October 12, 2011

Dr Pepper Reaches out to Men In Bold New "No Women Allowed" Branding

The trend in diet drink sales is to appeal to men. Men are, in many ways, the last frontier for this sector.

Received wisdom has it that they shy away from diet drinks because the product naming and branding is so clearly feminine.

Dr Pepper has a new drink called Dr Pepper Ten and the company is doing everything to sell the idea that this stuff is indeed macho. In fact, the new ad campaign is taking the route of "No Girls Allowed" quite literally with the tagline "It's Not for Women."

One woman blogger has reacted with some amusement about this noting that the ads, which have a heavy Star Wars flavor, seem to ignore the fact that "there are girls out there who like jungle battles and laser fights with futuristic bad guys."

More than that, she says, "The saddest part, however, is that even though this ad campaign kind of pisses me off, it does it in a way that makes me want to drink Dr Pepper Ten just to spite anyone who thinks I'm not allowed to."